The School of Law is firmly established as a centre of national and international excellence in legal study and research. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise (REF 2014) we were ranked ninth in England, based on 86 per cent of our research activity classed as world-leading (4* the highest score possible) or internationally excellent (3*). The independent assessment of research quality takes into account the quality of research outputs, research environment and research impact.

As a department within the School of Law, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) is home to researchers in a broad range of commercial law subjects, including our research institutes:

The diversity of choice for postgraduate research and the range of expertise on which they can draw provide one of the richest and most extensive programmes for PhD research degrees in law in the country.

School of Law Research

The School of Law consists of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the Department of Law. You can view research from both departments on the School of Law research pages.